MARINE CASUALTIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 30

MARINE CASUALTIES

SYDNEY, March 25. It is considered probable that the Oregon timber found at Long Island was part of the deck cargo from thewreck of the Siskin. It is an old story. The wreck occurred in 1896, when the vessel was engaged in an Island cruise, all the crew escaping. The owner subsequently returned and took off the stores. SYDNEY, March 26. The steamer Albany is ashore at Nambucca. The crew have landed, and the officers are standing by. The vessel is bumping heavily, and making water. She is unable to keep steam up. Assistance will be sent in the morning. The Albany will he better known in New Zealand as the Claude Hamilton, of the old McMeekin, Blackwood line. SYDNEY, March 27. The steamer Albany, which, ran ashore at Nambucca, has broken in two. The crew have all got ashore. The steamer Marjorie, from Bellambi, is ashore at Or on u 11a. The members of the crew are believed to be safe. The vessel is stranded on a reef. She is expected to come off when her cargo of coal is lightered. BRISBANE, March 27. The Moana, which has just arrived, made a fruitless search for the steamer Pilbarra. LONDON, March 26. The Allan liner Parisian, with a thousand passengers on board, collided with the Hamburg-American liner Albamo, with eight hundred passengers, off Halifax, Nova Scotia. Both vessels made port. The Albano-’e bows were crushed, and the Parisian was down at the stern. There were, no* casualties.